There is just no cost to benefit ratio that makes sense for wide 8k adoption.
you underestimate the power of marketing and endless growth.
Samsung has to sell more TVs every year, buzzwords sell TVs. Marketing departments like those as well āFLAGSHIP 8K TVā
is ā4Kā delivery even necessarryā¦ idk my eyes arent good enough to tell or my 77" TV is too far away or bothā¦
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4K is overkill for home use, even with a 77ā screen. Itās got debatable value on a cinema screen, where the most noticeable difference will be the sharpness of the subtitles.
Itās all just marketing. āThat movie would have been so much better at 4kā is not a statement anyone has ever made.
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They definitely need to up their bandwidth before increasing resolution again. The banding on ALL streaming platforms is horrible, really embarrassing
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the correlation between visual quality, bitdepth, resolution and bitrate even on the same codec is not that linear.
data reduction is a weird thing.
as @ALan said 10bit is easier to compress than 8bit, 4x the resolution does not mean 4x the bitrate, it all very much depends on the content.
Its complicated
Nope.
4K hdr is a noticeable improvement for home use.
Streaming, unfortunately, can be terrible compression for so much data.
UHD BluRay can show a huge diff especially w dark saturated content. Game of thrones final season or even Wednesday on Netflix are good cases.
For work station, you donāt want 8 bit.
The grads just donāt hold up, as mentioned previously.
Once seen canāt be unseen.
Andy D.
(West-sideā¦)
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Hard disagree here. Iāve been slowly swapping out my home blu-ray collection with 4Ks as they release and the quality bump is very noticeable, at least on a brand new OLED. the recent criterion blurays of malcolm x and days of heaven for instance completely blew me away. have even A/Bād a few against their HD counterparts (upresād by my player of course) and the difference is not subtle.
I do think its the HDR that does it more than the resolution alone fwiw, but agree with others, it really needs 10bit.
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But is that due to the resolution? My thesis is if you took any of the new 4k blu rays and only changed the resolution, they would look equally good.
At this point the math behind pixels to perceptible resolution, on home screens ā thereās just not an economic reason to keep pushing for more pixels.
Samsung, LG, and Panasonic have joined the chatā¦
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Oh yeah, theyāll push. But will consumers really pay for it.
I just wish everyone would reconsider and move back to 4:3. Or even better 1:1.
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Super-VHS
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Betamax.
Zack Snyder has entered the chat. 
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Super Betamax. Preferably with the wired stow-away remote.
You guys are old.
Full disclosure. Iām fine with 4k. I just want 4k in 4:3 or 1:1.
Iām not old. Iām nostalgic and pragmatic AND old.
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Iām reminded of when Netflix mandated 4k and > for cameras on their shows. The Arri Alexa wasnāt 4k yet. I had just seen ā12 Years a Slaveā - shot on Arri 2.5k, and I thought, āYeah, that was pretty good, but it really needed another K or two to be great.ā (/Sarcasm)
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Scorsese shot Hugo at 2.5K ProRez.
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